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pennsylvania german language

The PennsylvaniaGermanLanguage is a MoselleFranconianWestMiddleGermanLanguage of the UnitedStates. SIL code: PDC. ISO 639-2: gem. Population: 85,000 in USA, including 70,000 Old Order Amish, 15,000 Old Order Mennonites, fewer Pennsylvanisch (Lutheran). Population total both countries: 100,000 out of an ethnic population of 200,000 (1978 Kloss and McConnell). Region: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Virginia, West Virginia, and Florida. Also spoken in Canada. Alternate names: PENNSYLVANISH, PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH. Dialects: AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (PLAIN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN), NON-AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (PENSYLVANISCH DEITSCH, NON-PLAIN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN). Comments: Blending of several German dialects, primarily Rhenish Palatinate (Pfalzer) German, with syntactic elements of High German and English. Mostly incomprehensible now to a person from the Palatinate (H. Kloss 1978). Non-plain community: youngest fluent speakers 40 to 50 years old (M. Louden 1987). Plain community not shifting to English, but has stable bilingualism (M. Louden 1987). Separate orthographies for Pennsylvania and Ohio dialects. Christian. NT 1994. Also spoken in: Canada. (Language name: GERMAN, PENNSYLVANIA.) Population: 15,000 in Canada (1995). Alternate names: PENNSYLVANISCH, PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH. Dialects: AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN, NON-AMISH PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN (PENNSYLVANISCH DEITSCH). Comments: Christian. NT 1994.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	german group language
	germanic language	A GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	indo european language	There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	language family	A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	middle german language	Of the 17 GermanGroupLanguages, eight are classified as a MiddleGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	moselle franconian west middle german language	Of the four WestMiddleGermanLanguages, one is classified as a MoselleFranconianWestMiddleGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	natural language	The subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	west germanic language
	west middle german language	Of the eight MiddleGermanLanguages, four are classified as a WestMiddleGermanLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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